Dear Qlogic driver maintaners! In our effort to clean up the license situation of the Linux kernel [1] we've identified five Qlogic specific license files which reside in the Documentation directory. Four of them contain a full copy of the GPLv2 license text and one (LICENSE.qla3xxx) contains a proprietary license for a firmware binary which is not distributed with the Linux kernel. The latter is a leftover from the old out of tree tarball which contained the firmware binary along with the driver source. The same notice was in the qla2/4xxx license files, but got cleaned up quite some time ago. Seems the qla3xxx one was missed. The following patch series replaces the license files with a proper SPDX license identifier in the source files which today reference the license files. There is no information lost because the copyright notices are in the source files already and the GPLv2 license text is in the kernels LICENSES directory. The qla3xxx cleanup removes the firmware license notice as well because it is pointless in context of the kernel. See the individual changelogs for detailed information about each driver/license file. Please support our efforts to make the Linux kernels licensing clean and compliance friendly. If you have questions feel free to ask or contact your legal departement. In case your legal departement has questions or issues, please direct them to the linux-spdx mailing list where these issues are discussed. If you (and/or your legal departement) agree with these changes, then please either reply with a Reviewed-by and we route them directly to Linus or pick them up individually through your trees and let as know that they are en route. For your conveniance the patches are also available from git: git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git qlogic Thanks, tglx [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1905062040530.3334@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---- networking/device_drivers/qlogic/LICENSE.qla3xxx | 46 --- networking/device_drivers/qlogic/LICENSE.qlcnic | 288 ---------------------- networking/device_drivers/qlogic/LICENSE.qlge | 288 ---------------------- scsi/LICENSE.qla2xxx | 290 ----------------------- scsi/LICENSE.qla4xxx | 289 ---------------------- 5 files changed, 1201 deletions(-)
